INTERNATIONALIZING THE ARABIC LANGUAGE: TRANSLATION MEMORY AS AN EXAMPLE

the focus of the present study. As "a corpus of already translated examples [serving) as models for the new translation, but crucially it is the human users, not the computer itself, who should determine exactly how to use the examples in producing a new translation" (Somers and Diaz, 2004:5), the idea goes back to the 1960s. However, this translation tool, instrumental in machine-aided human translation (MAHT), has not been widely known in this part of the world, which if implemented and commercialized may reflect qualitatively and quantitatively on translating from and into Arabic.